Glossary+of+Key+Terms

= ﻿Glossary of Key Terms =

**Classroom Management﻿** - Techniques used to maintain a healhty learning environment, relatively free of behavior problems.
 * Academic Learning time** - Time when students are actually succeeding at the learning task.
 * Action Zone** - Area of a classroom where the greatest amount of interaction takes place.
 * Allocated time** - Time set aside for learning.
 * Engaged time/ Time on task** - Time spent actively engaged in the learning task at hand.
 * Group focus** - The ability to keep as many students as possible involved in activvities.
 * Movement management** - Keeping lessons and the group moving at an appropriate (and flexible) pace, with smooth transitions and variety.
 * Natural/Logicla consequences** - Instead of punishing, have students redo, repair, or in some way face the consequences that naturally flow from their actions.
 * Overlapping** - Supervising several activities at once.
 * Participation structures** - Rules defining how to participate in different activities.
 * Precorrection** - A way of preventing serious behavior problems of students who have been labeled at risk by directing the students toward more appropriate actions.
 * Procedures** - Guidelines for accomplishing recurring tasks.
 * Rules** - Statements specifying expected and forbidden behaviors; dos and don'ts.
 * Self-management** - Management of your own behavior and acceptance of responsibility for your own actions.
 * Withitness** - According to Kounin, awareness of everything happening in a classroom.

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